SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) through the Naval Facilities Command for the Living Marine Resources (LMR) applied science program.
- Notice Date
- 3/7/2013
- Notice Type
- Combined Synopsis/Solicitation
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- N39430 NAVFAC EXWC, Port Hueneme 1000 23rd AVE Port Hueneme, CA
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- N3943013R1235
- Response Due
- 4/18/2013
- Archive Date
- 5/31/2013
- Point of Contact
- Lynn Torres (805) 982-4720 Contracting Point of Contact:
- E-Mail Address
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orres@navy.mil<br
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- FAR Part 35 restricts the use of BAAs, such as this, to the acquisition of basic and applied research and that portion of advanced technology development not related to the development of a specific system or hardware procurement. Contracts made under BAAs are for scientific study and experimentation directed towards advancing the state of the art and increasing knowledge or understanding. This announcement is not for the acquisition of technical, engineering, or other types of support services. The Naval Facilities Command, through the Living Marine Resources applied science program (LMR), is soliciting pre-proposals for efforts related to any one of the six (6) themes listed below. You must read the attached solicitation document for full information, as the below is an excerpt. Additional guidance to pre-proposal submitters can be found on the LMR website (www.lmr.navy.mil) : 1.Data and Tools for the Assessment and Mitigation of Effects from Construction Noise (LMR N-0001-13). Pre-proposals should focus on 1) better methods to assess the potential effects of underwater sound in inland waterways and/or 2) cost-effective methods to mitigate the impacts of underwater sound during in-water construction, maintenance, operation and training operations. The goal of successful pre-proposals should be to support cost-effective planning and execution of projects while minimizing environmental risk. 2.Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) Technology Demonstrations (LMR N-0006-13). This topic is based on the Navy need for persistent automated monitoring of sites of interest such as the Navy training and evaluation ranges covered by the current Navy Phase II NEPA process. Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is a proven means of detecting, classifying, and localizing vocally active marine mammals, as well as a number of fish species. Sensors can be moored, drifting, vessel towed or mounted on unmanned mobile platforms, including gliders. 3.Behavioral Responses to Navy Sound Sources (LMR N-0011-13). Potential behavioral effects on marine life, in particular marine mammals, make up the largest and most poorly defined category of environmental risk to marine life from Navy sound-producing activities. Much of the available historical data comes from non-Navy sound sources, for species and locations of relatively low Navy concern. Data are needed to strengthen the quantitative, statistical foundations of risk thresholds developed jointly by Navy and the regulatory agencies. 4.Hearing and Auditory System Information for Hearing-Based Risk Criteria (N-0012-13). The Navy and NMFS rely heavily on threshold of audibility data and hearing-based risk criteria. Current gaps in understanding of these metrics have produced risk threshold criteria that are likely to be overly conservative. For example, no recovery function is applied to Temporary Threshold Shift (TTS effects), even though recovery usually occurs quickly for intermittent sources like mid-frequency sonars. Few data, even for basic audiometry, are available to support risk criteria for ESA listed birds, fishes, or invertebrates. Many species are rare or difficult to keep in captivity, such as beaked whales and baleen whales, in which case modeling from anatomy or a capability to quickly test stranded animals (e.g. AEP) might be of potentially greater value than would be the case if these methodologies were applied to species already under human care such as bottlenose dolphins or sea lions. 5.Demonstration and Evaluation of Platform-Independent Improvements to Automated Signal Processing of Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) Data (LMR N0020-13). As PAM sensors continue to deliver more data from both baseline surveys and mitigation monitoring, the time to process the data remains inconsistent and slow and the cost remains high, making it difficult to evaluate competing PAM systems and their data processing systems. A process is needed by which new and emerging signal processing systems are evaluated against common, shared benchmarks. This statement of need encourages proposals to develop, test, and evaluate existing or new PAM signal processing systems designed for users with relatively little or no subject matter expertise. Proposed signal processing systems may be integrated with a specific hardware/software PAM system for data collection, but preference will be given to hardware-independent processing systems. Hardware-independent systems should clearly specify file formats, frequency bandwidth limitations or special signal conditioning requirements for data sets submitted to the processor. 6.Capability Development for Hearing Data Collection (LMR N0029-13). This statement of need focuses on technology and methodology developments to expand the sample size and range of species that can be tested, along with reducing cost and time to obtain data. Existing alternatives to behavioral testing of trained animals include evoked potential audiometry and modeling from anatomy. Other solutions may exist or deserve further exploration.
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